Genocide

C Scott Jordan asks what happened to 'never again'; Maha Sardar builds a legal case for genocides; Martin Shaw explores the politics of genocide; Richard Appignanesi thinks genocide is a grotesque act of evil; Abdelwahab El-Affendi is appalled by genocide denial; Sean Goodman takes on the champions of Bosnian genocide; Liam Mayo blames modernity; Marat iliyasov recounts the horror of genocides in Chechnya; Robert Zayd KiaNouri-Zigmund looks at the notion of war and justice in the Qur'an; Ali Nobil Ahmad suggests Pakistan should accept its culpability in the birth of Bangladesh; Jeremy Henzell-Thomas thinks deeper education is a solution to all round hatred; Celine Kasem traces the roots of her perforated identity; Luke Wilkinson remembers the young Palestinian poet Heba Abu Hada; Robin Yassin-Kassab visits Bosnia; and Hassan Mahamdallie peeks into the inhuman prison that is Gaza.

Also in this issue: Zain Sardar argues for a new ethics of catastrophe; Shamim Miah reads a new verse translation of the Qur'an; Naomi Foyle tackles transformative justice; Ruth Cuthand's art from Reserving Series; short stories by Andleeb Shadani and Tam Hussein; poems for Gaza by Carol Rumens, Michal Rubin and Adrianne Kalfopoulou; and our list of eight peaceful coexistences.

In this issue

  • Give Peace a Chance
    Politics

    Eight Peaceful Co-Existences

    After even a minor study of genocide one could not be blamed for losing hope, even pondering if genocide is the ultimate fate of human societies…

  • See No Hear No Speak No
    Politics

    Genocide Denial

    In June this year, a ninety-six-year-old German grandmother was given a sixteen-month prison sentence by a Hamburg court for repeatedly claiming that…

    Abdelwahab El-Affendi
  • The ICC
    Politics

    Genocide, Then and Now

    In Spring 146 BC, Roman forces led by Scipio Aemilianus breached the walls of Carthage, spending the next seven days systematically destroying the…

    Maha Sardar
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